Verimatrix will be featuring Chief Technology Officer Petr Peterka as a speaker at Digital Hollywood Fall 2011, Oct.17-20 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey, CA. At the conference, he will share recent trends in digital rights management and revenue security for dramatically expanding multi-network, multi-screen services.

Peterka's panel, "Protecting the Product: Content Rights and Technology Solutions in Media and Entertainment: Implementation of Technology Strategies" will be held on Wed., Oct.19 from 3:50 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. During the session, he will address the entertainment and media industries ability to manage its content and control its distribution, while simultaneously making it available to an ever larger customer and device base. Specifically, he and his co-panelists will explore, from the point of view of the technology companies, the possibilities and potential of DRM in the evolving content landscape.

SecureMedia and TVBLOB announce that TVBLOB's TV-centric development platform and hybrid internet set-top boxes ("BLOBbox"), that bring the power of the Web directly to TV is protected by SecureMedia's Encryptonite ONET System CA/DRM. Leveraging TVBLOB's free SDK from the BLOBforge, content owners anywhere can now realize new, 'over-the-top' television services and business models on the BLOBbox using standard Web technologies, while ensuring the highest levels of digital protection for content distributed in both linear and non-linear means including VOD, podcasts and HTTP streaming.

Verimatrix has been issued patent number 7,430,302 for unique features in VideoMark, Verimatrix's user-specific, forensic watermarking technology. The new patent, the first of several pending for VideoMark, protects key processes where the forensic mark is invisibly and robustly embedded in video content, and converted to a human recognizable image during extraction. As has been proven in multiple system evaluations, a human readable mark withstands more sophisticated video manipulations such as cropping and geometric distortions, than those which rely on machine extraction alone.

IBC2008: Verimatrix enhances the value and security of pay-TV networks with advanced software-based technologies designed to address the content protection challenges of today, and those of tomorrow. The Verimatrix 3-Dimensional Content Security approach provides a framework to enhance operator competitiveness and the consumer experience in the new world of pay-TV.

Chunghwa Telecom has purchased an additional 450,000 Cypher Virtual SmartCard clients from Widevine to accommodate rapid subscriber expansion and in-home network proliferation with existing subscribers. The continued demand for Chunghwa's television service has largely been driven by the introduction of existing Hollywood premium content, HD programming and exclusive rights to Olympics coverage.

CCTV has selected SafeNet’s DRM solution to provide copyright protection for live and on-demand online video footage of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. CCTV.com has been recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the only official internet/mobile broadcaster of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and therefore owns exclusive rights to the broadcast of all audio and video content via online and mobile distribution channels across Mainland China and Macau. CCTV has committed to protect the intellectual property of the IOC against piracy. They are following the China Broadcasting Copyright Protection standard.

Verimatrix announces that TeliaSonera has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System for IPTV for the tier one telecommunications operator's successful IPTV services in the Nordic region, Estonia and Lithuania. Telia Digital-TV, which was one of the first IPTV services in Europe to launch in 2005, offers subscribers compelling new programming packages that include 70 channels such as Discovery and the Disney Channel and a 24-hour on-demand library of movies.

Janne Yli-Äyhö, senior vice president and head of TV, Content and Digital Home, TeliaSonera, commented, "We needed a content security solution that we could install quickly and cost-effectively, and given our rapidly-growing subscriber base, it had to have proven scalability. There's no question Verimatrix can deliver iron-clad security for our broadcast and on-demand content. Plus, we were impressed with their ease of integration with our existing platform components."

Verimatrix announces that Win Multimedia, Thailand's leading IPTV Operator and Multimedia Service Provider company, has selected Verimatrix to protect its Digital Television Channels and video-on-demand service of WinTV. Verimatrix's Video Content Authority System for IPTV provides end-to-end security for content delivered to more than 500,000 WinTV subscribers.

WinTV includes 60 channels of digital television programming in a unique "catch-up" format, movies and trailers on demand, as well as special interactive services such as karaoke, music vote, games, e-learning and shopping, which are offered on STBs and secure PC screens.

Verimatrix announces the full profile of its comprehensive VCAS for Mobile TV solution to enable operators to deliver a seamless pay-TV service over mobile phones and other mobile Internet devices. Verimatrix will be demonstrating VCAS for Mobile TV at CommunicAsia 2008, booth 3D4-01b.

VCAS for Mobile TV enables pay-TV companies to respond to the growing consumer trend of watching television or video content when and where they want. Triple and quadruple-play service operators can deliver cost-effective mobile services that incorporate robust security and digital rights management without requiring specialist security hardware. The standards-based solution secures video within home media distribution, streaming or downloaded applications and the emerging mobile broadcasting networks.

Widevine expanded capabilities for operators to quickly and affordably secure content between multiple devices within an in-home network using Cypher 4.2. The new release adds hardware acceleration within the Sigma Designs 8364 secure processor on the Cisco line of IP STBs and DVRs to support enhanced services such as multi-room DVR. It also includes support for network address translation for unlimited expansion of the consumer domain to accommodate STBs, DVRs, PCs, handsets and portable media players.

Widevine and Verimatrix claimed the second and third spots in the company’s new evaluation of worldwide Digital Rights Management vendors. The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI Research to provide a clear understanding of vendors’ positions in specific markets.

Industry analyst Zippy Aima comments: “There is really very little separating the top three vendors in the Digital Rights Management Vendor Matrix. All offer good individualized technological solutions. NDS took top honors mainly on account of its larger market share. Widevine and Verimatrix are relatively new in the market, and their rapid success in gaining market share is commendable. On the basis of longevity in the market and number of customers, however, NDS has to be considered the market leader.”

Widevine announces enhanced seek capabilities within Cypher for Digital Media. The new feature enables Adobe enhanced player controls on progressive downloaded H.264 Flash content when using the Adobe Player. It also works with any http server and can seamlessly support other major video formats based on customer demand.

With this enhancement Widevine enables service providers and video operators to use any PDL server in their distribution infrastructure while enabling random access features like jumping ahead of the PDL buffer, bookmarks and jumping backwards. The video provider may deliver HD H.264 or Flash Video to consumers with the same or better consumer experience gained by the use of more costly streaming platforms. This new capability builds upon Widevine's previous Flash support which includes securing distribution and consumption of streamed, progressive downloaded and file downloaded content.

IOL Netcom has selected Verimatrix as the content security provider for its on-demand IPTV service, India's first IP-based on-demand television service to more than 250,000 subscribers. In addition to deploying the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System for IPTV, IOL will be offering premium, MPEG-4 content via subscriber's home PC through Verimatrix's ViewRight PC Player, the only independently-audited, secure PC player for IPTV on the market.

IOL will be offering the PC as a viable second screen in a subscriber's home, providing a cost-effective option to view its on-demand movie library and 150 broadcast channels. ViewRight is an integrated component of VCAS and provides the same level of content security and revenue protection as with dedicated STB equipment.

Widevine will demonstrate its content protection solution to protect experiences powered by Microsoft Silverlight. Widevine's cross-platform content security technology is a Hollywood studio approved DRM standard in use today by several major content providers and studios to encrypt and protect premium content offerings which now can be delivered in Silverlight. Widevine will demonstrate its Cypher for Digital Media solution in the Microsoft booth at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas.

Verimatrix has been confirmed as the global leader of IPTV content security for the fourth consecutive reporting period. Based on MRG’s bi-annual IPTV Market Leader Report, Verimatrix’s content security solutions are the most-widely deployed with the highest number of supported subscribers on a global basis. Verimatrix also claims the number one position in the highly-competitive European region. Since the report first debuted in 2003, Verimatrix is the only IPTV vendor that can claim the top position in its category for four times running.

MRG’s IPTV Market Leader Report tracks the top 120 IPTV hardware/software vendors in 24 regional sub-sectors based on the installed base for six product areas. Based on MRG’s list of Top 25 Operators worldwide, Verimatrix’s solutions are deployed in 11, which nearly quadruples its nearest competitor and gives the company extremely strong growth prospects.